Rebellious jazz took flight in Harlem at Minton’s Playhouse, but it was nurtured on the tree-lined streets that gave pioneering Black musicians a home. Dizzy Gillespie during a photo session in ...
You didn't need to know anything about Dizzy Gillespie's paradoxical career or his more paradoxical personality to discern that he was a lively mix of contradictions-you only had to hear him play. His ...
DIZZY: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN BIRKS GILLESPIE. By Donald L. Maggin. HarperEntertainment, 423 pp. $26.32. Dizzy Gillespie, the trumpeter who would forever become associated with the birth of bebop, ...
A 2024 election pop quiz. Who was the most famous—not to mention the most entertaining—third-party presidential candidate in the history of the United States? The answer is not comedian Pat Paulsen ...